Sexual Orientation and School Policy: A Practical Guide for Teachers, Administrators, and Community Activists (Curriculum, Cultures, and (Homo)Sexualities) PDF
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S E X U A L ORIENTATION AND SCHOOL POLICY Curriculum, Cultures, and (Homo)Sexualities Edited by JamesT. Sears Editorial Advisory Board: Dennis Altman, Warren Blumenfeld, Deborah Britzman, Diane DuBose Brunner, Debbie Epstein, Pat Griffin, Glorianne Leck, Peter McLaren, William Pinar, Eric Rofes, and Mariamne Whatley Getting Ready for Benjamin: Preparing Teachers for Sexual Diversity in the Classroom Edited by Rita M. Kissen Troubling Intersections of Race and Sex Edited by Kevin K. Kumashiro Queering Elementary Education Edited by William 7. Letts IV and James T. Sears Beyond Diversity Day: A Q&A on Gay and Lesbian Issues in Schools Arthur Lipkin Forthcoming in the Series Border Sexualities and Border Families By Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli S E X U A L ORIENTATION A N D SCHOOL POLICY A Practical Guide for Teachers, Administrators, and Community Activists Ian K. Macgillivray ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS, INC - Lanham * Boulder * New York * Toronto Oxford ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS, INC. Published in the United States of America by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. A wholly owned subsidiary of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 4501 Forbes Boulevard, Suite 200, Lanham, MD 20706 www.rowmanlittlefield.com P.O. Box 3 17, Oxford OX2 9RU, UK Copyright 0 2004 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Information Available Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Macgillivray, Ian K. 1967- Sexual orientation and school policy :a practical guide for teachers, administrators, and community activists / Ian K. Macgillivray. p. cm. -(Curriculum, cultures, and (homo)sexualities) ISBN 0-7425-2507-4 (cloth : alk. paper) -ISBN 0-7425-2508-2 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Homosexuality and education. 2. Education-Social aspects. 3. Gays-Identity. 4. Lesbians-Identity. I. Title. 11. Series LC192.6.M33 2004 37 1.826'64-dc2 1 2003011932 Printed in the United States of America @" The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences-Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI/NISO 239.48- 1992. Dedicated to the High Plains Safe Schools Coalition. Keep up the great work! This Page Intentionally Left Blank Series Editor’s Foreword: James T. Sears, Ph.D. ix Foreword: Kevin Jennings xi Acknowledgments xv Part I: Implementing School Nondiscrimination Policy That Includes Sexual Orientation: A Case Study in School and Community Politics 1 In the Beginning 3 2 A History of the Two Policies 27 3 Strategies Employed by the High Plains Safe Schools Coalition to Build Community and District Support 49 4 Lessons from the Case of High Plains 61 5 Suggestions for Other School Districts and Safe Schools Coalitions 77 Part 11: Understanding Moral Conservative Opposition to School Policies That Include Sexual Orientation 6 Opposition to Educational Change 83 7 How the Various Sides in This Debate Make Meaning of the Policies 91 8 Why the Various Sides Support or Oppose the Inclusion of Sexual Orientation in the Policies 111 - v11- ... Vlll Contents 9 Conclusion: How to Evaluate the Competing Claims of Violations of Rights 143 Epilogue: My Reflections on This Research 167 Appendix A On the Making of Sexual Orientation and School Policy 175 Appendix B: Methods of Data Analysis 187 Appendix C: Validity and Reliability 193 Appendix D: HPSD’s Nondiscrimination Policy 197 Appendix E: Diversity Goal Statement with Beliefs from Strategic Plan 199 Appendix F: Associated Regulations That Support the Nondiscrimination Policy 201 Bibliography 21 1 Index 217 About the Author 223 Series Editor’s Foreword James T. Sears, Ph.D. 0UR NATION’S SECONDARY SCHOOLS HAVE experienced remarkable progress in addressing lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) concerns. From the formation of gay-straight alliances to the adoption of antiharass- ment policies, being a queer high school student is in some ways quite differ- ent from my experience a generation ago. Progress, however, can only be judged from my Ozzie and Harriet vantage point-an era when every state criminalized homosexuality, when the psy- chiatric profession diagnosed it as an illness, when no religious denomina- tion sanctified homosexual relationships, and when teachers were entrapped and summarily dismissed because of their sexual orientation. Even today, relatively few schools have recognized gay student groups (the drama club notwithstanding); little protection is provided to LGBT educators or pupils; the curricula that include the contributions of acknowledged lesbians and gay men are rare as are pedagogical practices that are inclusive; and queer- ing elementary education is more likely found on a bookshelf than in the classroom. Within this historical context a new generation of scholars and researchers are peering into the black box of schooling. They are asking difficult ques- tions, often challenging our simple-minded equation that policy reform equals school change. One of these inquirers is Ian K. Macgillivray, an openly gay classroom teacher with an earned doctorate who came out to the music of Boy George and George Michael. Macgillivray takes us to America’s heartland through an exemplary ethno- graphic inquiry. In Sexual Orientation and School Policy, we enter High Plains - - 1x
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